[driving4peanuts]

Spain returns faulty test kits to China as COVID-19 death toll passes 4,000-mark
euroefe.es
Mar 26, 2020 (updated: 2:10)

The Chinese embassy said the Spanish government had purchased the items from an unlicensed company called Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology. [EPA/ABIR SULTAN]
Languages: Deutsch
As Spain's death toll hit 4,089, the Chinese embassy in Madrid said on Thursday (26 March) that the Spanish government had bought a batch of faulty COVID-19 testing kits from an unauthorised Chinese company. EURACTIV's partner EFE reports.
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rose to almost 56,188 on Thursday (26 March), up 655 compared to the day before.
Spain's efforts to roll out 640,000 rapid testing kitsbought from companies in China and South Korea this week hit a setback when the first order of around 9,000 failed to meet specifications and had to be returned.
The Chinese embassy said the Spanish government had purchased the items from an unlicensed company called Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology.
In a message on Twitter, it said the order had not been part of the €432 million ($466m) contract with China that the Spanish government announced Wednesday (25 March), which would include the delivery of 5.5 million testing kits.
"The Chinese ministry of commerce offered Spain a list of certified providers, which did not include Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology. Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology has not yet been licensed by the Chinese National Medical Products Administration to sell its products," he said.
The head of Spain's public health emergency department Fernando Simon confirmed in his daily briefing that the first batch of kits delivered to the country had been sent back to the provider, although he did not name the company in question.
"Spain obtained several providers and supply routes. The first one sent a batch of 9,000 tests that were validated at the National Center of Epidemiology and some hospitals (in Madrid).
However, "the specifications of the batch did not match up with the certification of quality that came with it, which meant they had to be returned and the company will change them," he said.
The Spanish association of microbiologists (SEIMC) warned that the testing kits in this batch performed with an accuracy level of under 30%,
"With this level of accuracy, it is impossible to put them into routine use," SEIMC spokeswoman María del Mar Tomás told EFE.

Hopefully, we are not getting our test kits from china.
They sold it to Italy, Czech, Denmark, etc...
And they all returning them..

The Netherlands has recalled 600,000 coronavirus face masks it imported from China after discovering they were faulty
[email protected] (Adam Payne,Sinéad Baker,Ruqayyah Moynihan)
Business InsiderMarch 29, 2020, 2:05 AM PDT

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Jack Taylor / Getty

• The Netherlands has asked hospitals to give back around 600,000 face masks it imported from China.
• It found that the masks were failing to meet safety requirements, Dutch media reported.
• The masks were failing to stop coronavirus particles pass through, the report said.

The Dutch government has recalled over half a million face masks it imported from China after discovering that they were faulty.

The Netherlands said on Saturday that it had asked its hospitals to return around 600,000 face masks which health professionals are using to treat patients of the coronavirus.

"The mouth masks that are not satisfactory have been retrieved," Holland's Ministry of Health told Dutch broadcaster NOS.

The NOS reported that the faulty masks fail to meet safety requirements because they did not fit on the faces of doctors and nurses and were failing to prevent particles of the COVID-19 virus passing through.

One hospital worker quoted by the NOS said: "When they were delivered to our hospital, I immediately rejected those masks... If those masks do not close properly, the virus particles can simply pass. We do not use them.

"That is unsafe for our people."

The Netherlands, like its European neighbours, has introduced strict social distancing measures to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Mark Rutte moved to close all bars, restaurants, and schools.

It had reported 9,762 confirmed cases of the virus and 639 deaths linked to it at the time of writing.

It is not the only European country to report receiving faulty equipment from China.

Microbiology experts in Spain this week said that rapid coronavirus tests that the country bought from the Chinese state are not consistently detecting positive cases.

Studies on these tests found that they had only 30% sensitivity, meaning they correctly identified people with the virus only 30% of the time, according to the Spanish newspaper El País.

Medical professionals in the Czech Republic have also said that rapid tests from China were not working properly.

CHINESE NURSES WERE USING THE FAULTY MASKS, TESTING PATIENTS WITH FAULTY TESTKITS
🥵🥵🥵

There were a lot of masks in the blackmarket in Korea, that was brought from china.
They had to track them down and confiscate them because they were faulty and useless. They probably sold the same ones to these countries.
🚫🚫🚫🚫

 

[Arthur Dent]

The only good things that have come from China is chop-sticks and Kung-Pow chicken

 

[driving4peanuts]

The only good things that have come from China is massage parlors and ORANGE CHICKEN.

FTFY

 

[DollarFree]

Copied this from the SF page, courtesy @Pink Cerberus it seems to belong here too...

https://dailycaller.com/2020/03/29/chinese-markets-reopen-bats-dogs-cats/

and this,

https://cnsnews.com/blog/craig-bann...cns&utm_campaign=b-NewtIfChineseHadBeenHonest

 

[Lets_Eat]

The only good things that have come from China is chop-sticks and Kung-Pow chicken

Are you sure it's chicken???

 

[driving4peanuts]

Are you sure it's chicken???

 

[DollarFree]

Time for the world to consciously uncouple from China. Won’t be easy but better than putting up with their lies and waiting for their disgusting wet markets to inflict an even worse disease on the rest of us.

 

[driving4peanuts]

Time for the world to consciously uncouple from China. Won't be easy but better than putting up with their lies and waiting for their disgusting wet markets to inflict an even worse disease on the rest of us.

'They see my blue eyes then jump back' - China sees a new wave of xenophobia
Fears rise that Beijing is stoking mistrust of foreigners as part of an attempt to rebuild a reputation tarnished by the coronavirus crisis
Lily Kuo in Shanghai and Helen Davidson
Sun 29 Mar 2020 02.13 EDT

Over the past few weeks, as Chinese health officials reported new "imported" coronavirus cases almost every day, foreigners living in the country have noticed a change. They have been turned away from restaurants, shops, gyms and hotels, subjected to further screening, yelled at by locals and avoided in public spaces.
"I'm walking past someone, then they see my blue eyes and jump a foot back," said Andrew Hoban, 33, who is originally from Ireland and lives in Shanghai.

Experiences range from socially awkward to xenophobic. An American walking with a group of foreigners in a park in Beijing saw a woman grab her child and run the other way. Others have described being called "foreign trash". A recent online article, under an image of ship stacked with refuse being pushed away from China's coast, was headlined: "Beware of a second outbreak started by foreign garbage."
As China moves towards getting back to normal after months of paralysis, authorities are focused on avoiding a second wave of infections from overseas.
In the last seven days, China has reported only six locally transmitted cases but dozens arriving from abroad. By last Thursday, officials had reported a total of 595 imported cases since the outbreak began, the main source being the UK. Observers say the focus on imported cases has led to an increase in anti-foreign sentiment, which according to some has been on the rise for years.

"There is an effect when state media are reporting this is a foreign virus," said Jeremiah Jenne, an American historian living in Beijing. "It is a new variation of a familiar theme: don't trust foreigners. If there is another flare-up in China, the blame will fall on people coming from outside."
Last Saturday, the country temporarily closed its borders to all foreign arrivals. Officials have also ordered local airlines to maintain only one route per country per week.
Some say the focus on foreigners - surprising given that 90% of imported cases were Chinese passport holders, according to the country's foreign ministry - is the leadership's attempt to shore up its image.
"If there is an opportunity to make themselves look strong, competent and legitimate by capitalising on public anxiety, they'll take it," said Mike Gow, a lecturer at Coventry University's School of Strategy and Leadership. "If that happens to stoke xenophobia, so be it."

Several foreign residents stressed, however, that their experiences were not akin to those of Asians in the US and elsewhere, who have been beaten and subjected to racial slurs.
Bill Aitchison, 49, who is originally from the UK and lives between Xiamen and Nanjing, said: "I haven't been attacked and haven't heard of any foreigners being attacked… but the virus has unleashed some ugly sentiments. When borders close and walls go up, it seems people everywhere are apt to see the virus in those who are unfamiliar."
But some foreign communities are experiencing more harassment. An African couple in Beijing were made to wait for two hours at a restaurant before a worker let slip that they were not supposed to allow in heiren - "black people".

"The combination of pre-existing attitudes to race and Africans, plus this new wave of fear of foreigners, is making things worse," said Runako Celina, co-founder of Black Livity China, which documents experiences of Africans and people of African descent in China. "Despite us doing this work steadily throughout the years, I don't think there's been a single period of time when we've had as many racism [or] discrimination-related incidents from different people and provinces."
Others describe more scrutiny and wariness. American David Alexander, 32, who lives in the southern province of Jiangsu, said his Chinese co-workers had been advised to stay away from foreigners. In a shop last week, a couple waited until he had left before entering. "There is a sense of fear around foreigners," he said.
A British-Canadian software engineer living in Shenzhen described being stopped several times by police and asked for her papers, something that did not happen before.
The issue is being replicated across Asia. In Vietnam, hostility toward foreigners has reached such a level that the Vietnamese ministry of foreign affairs issued a statement calling for it to stop.

"It is our hope that the spirit of humanitarianism, equality and non-discrimination will be upheld by the entire international community, so that citizens from all countries and territories can enjoy security, safety and healthcare," the statement said.
In Thailand, a since-deleted Twitter account operated by the country's health minister reportedly said the country had to be "more careful of westerners than Asians" because they "never shower" or wear masks. He later denied writing the tweets. In Taiwan, some restaurants have reportedly said they will not serve foreign diners.
But several foreign residents in China said they did not feel unsafe, with the minor incidents they experienced not enough to make them reconsider living in China. Others said being treated like a pariah after having lived in the country for years was mostly disheartening.

Chris Lemos, 29, an American living in Shanghai, said he took a seat on the metro last week and a woman abruptly moved to the other side of the carriage.
Lemos, who had been in the city for three months, hunkering down at home to avoid falling ill or infecting others, had hoped for some solidarity. "I was in the trenches with them, so to speak," he said.

They wanna be racist...lets treat these chinese the same way here...
In my city, they our lil brizzies 😆

People in America and other parts of the world never understood my hate towards them before...
After this WUHAN VIRUS, they understand me now.

🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐🧐

 

[driving4peanuts]

 

[Homie]

COVID-19: China buffoons 'all-weather ally' Pakistan by sending 'underwear'

China has not even spared its 'all-weather ally' Pakistan. Promising to provide testing kits and top-quality N95 masks to Pakistan in a bid to help the country that has been crippled by the lethal coronavirus outbreak, Beijing actually duped its 'friend' by sending in masks made out of underwears.

Reporting the news, a local Pakistani news channel said, "China ne chuna laga diya" (China conned us) and further notified that the Sindh provincial government sent the masks to hospitals without checking.

"In the name of to-quality N95 masks, China has sent in masks made out of underwear. It was also a lacuna on the part of the provincial health authorities who received the medical aid. Without proper checking, the masks were sent to Qatar hospital in Karachi. Over there, the doctors and para-medical staff called it buffooning by China," Lahore-based News Break TV reported.

Late last month, China had asked Pakistan to open the border between the two countries for one day on Friday so that medical supplies to fight coronavirus pandemic could be sent.

The Chinese embassy in a letter to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs said that the governor of Xinjiang Uyghur Autonomous Region of China would like to donate a batch of medical materials to Gilgit-Baltistan, the Dawn reported.

According to the letter, the governor had donated 200,000 ordinary face masks, 2,000 N-95 face masks, five ventilators, 2,000 testing kits and 2,000 medical protective clothes mainly used by doctors and paramedics to fight with the virus, which originated in China late last year.

According to local media reports, the rise in the tally of active cases related to COVID-19 infection has subsided in the Chinese mainland and therefore, the country has been promising to help other countries, especially those whose economies have been severely affected by the ongoing crisis. But this was not the first case where reports have emerged of China sending low quality medical aid to various countries.

The Nepal government has scrapped a major deal for coronavirus testing kits and protective gears signed with a private Chinese company after finding them be of sub-standard quality, according to a senior official, the media reported.

In another incident, Spain, last week, had sent back to China millions of purchased kits.

Up to 80 per cent of the 150,000 portable, quick coronavirus test kits China delivered to the Czech Republic earlier this month were faulty, National Review reported citing local Czech news site Expats.cz.

The test can produce a result in 10- 15 minutes but are really less accurate than other tests, the media reported.

The China-originated deadly bug has infected around 12 lakhs people globally while the total tally of death has surpassed 65,000, according to the data compiled by US-based John Hopkins University.

Global money lenders including the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund (IMF) have predicted that East Asia and the Pacific could see up to 11 million people driven into poverty, with low wage and informal sector workers becoming the most vulnerable, as an economic impact of COVID-19 pandemic.

 

[DollarFree]

If China valued free speech, there would be no coronavirus crisis

Wolrd could have contained spread of disease if only China had learned lessons from Sars outbreak

The death of the whistleblower Chinese doctor Li Wenliang has aroused strong emotions across China. Social media is awash with posts mourning the death of a martyr who tried to raise alarm over the coronavirus but was taken into a police station instead for "spreading false rumours" and "disrupting social order".

We might remember a similar health crisis 17 years ago when the severe acute respiratory syndrome (Sars) epidemic, which also originated from China, infected more than 8,000 and killed about 800 across 17 countries. In 2003 the authorities covered up the disease for months before another whistleblowing doctor, 72-year-old Jiang Yanyong, exposed the crisis. More recently Jiang, now 88, has had his contacts with the outside world cut off and movements restricted after he asked the authorities last year to reassess the 1989 Tiananmen pro-democracy movement. He is now confined to his home by the authorities.

Compared with 17 years ago, Chinese citizens enjoy even fewer rights of speech and expression. A few days after 34-year-old Li posted a note in his medical school alumni social media group on 30 December, stating that seven workers from a local live-animal market had been diagnosed with an illness similar to Sars and were quarantined in his hospital, he was summoned by police. He was made to sign a humiliating statement saying he understood if he "stayed stubborn and failed to repent and continue illegal activities, (he) will be disciplined by the law".

Unless Chinese citizens' freedom of speech and other basic rights are respected, such crises will only happen again. With a more globalised world, the magnitude may become even greater - the death toll from the coronavirus outbreak is already comparable to the total Sars death toll.

Human rights in China may appear to have little to do with the rest of the world but as we have seen in this crisis, disaster could occur when China thwarts the freedoms of its citizens. Surely it is time the international community takes this issue more seriously.

#QuarantineChina

https://www.theguardian.com/world/2...e-speech-there-would-be-no-coronavirus-crisis

 

[Carbuncle]

Spain returns faulty test kits to China as COVID-19 death toll passes 4,000-mark
euroefe.es
Mar 26, 2020 (updated: 2:10)

The Chinese embassy said the Spanish government had purchased the items from an unlicensed company called Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology. [EPA/ABIR SULTAN]
Languages: Deutsch
As Spain's death toll hit 4,089, the Chinese embassy in Madrid said on Thursday (26 March) that the Spanish government had bought a batch of faulty COVID-19 testing kits from an unauthorised Chinese company. EURACTIV's partner EFE reports.
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rose to almost 56,188 on Thursday (26 March), up 655 compared to the day before.
Spain's efforts to roll out 640,000 rapid testing kitsbought from companies in China and South Korea this week hit a setback when the first order of around 9,000 failed to meet specifications and had to be returned.
The Chinese embassy said the Spanish government had purchased the items from an unlicensed company called Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology.
In a message on Twitter, it said the order had not been part of the €432 million ($466m) contract with China that the Spanish government announced Wednesday (25 March), which would include the delivery of 5.5 million testing kits.
"The Chinese ministry of commerce offered Spain a list of certified providers, which did not include Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology. Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology has not yet been licensed by the Chinese National Medical Products Administration to sell its products," he said.
The head of Spain's public health emergency department Fernando Simon confirmed in his daily briefing that the first batch of kits delivered to the country had been sent back to the provider, although he did not name the company in question.
"Spain obtained several providers and supply routes. The first one sent a batch of 9,000 tests that were validated at the National Center of Epidemiology and some hospitals (in Madrid).
However, "the specifications of the batch did not match up with the certification of quality that came with it, which meant they had to be returned and the company will change them," he said.
The Spanish association of microbiologists (SEIMC) warned that the testing kits in this batch performed with an accuracy level of under 30%,
"With this level of accuracy, it is impossible to put them into routine use," SEIMC spokeswoman María del Mar Tomás told EFE.

Hopefully, we are not getting our test kits from china.
They sold it to Italy, Czech, Denmark, etc...
And they all returning them..

The Netherlands has recalled 600,000 coronavirus face masks it imported from China after discovering they were faulty
[email protected] (Adam Payne,Sinéad Baker,Ruqayyah Moynihan)
Business InsiderMarch 29, 2020, 2:05 AM PDT

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Jack Taylor / Getty

• The Netherlands has asked hospitals to give back around 600,000 face masks it imported from China.
• It found that the masks were failing to meet safety requirements, Dutch media reported.
• The masks were failing to stop coronavirus particles pass through, the report said.

The Dutch government has recalled over half a million face masks it imported from China after discovering that they were faulty.

The Netherlands said on Saturday that it had asked its hospitals to return around 600,000 face masks which health professionals are using to treat patients of the coronavirus.

"The mouth masks that are not satisfactory have been retrieved," Holland's Ministry of Health told Dutch broadcaster NOS.

The NOS reported that the faulty masks fail to meet safety requirements because they did not fit on the faces of doctors and nurses and were failing to prevent particles of the COVID-19 virus passing through.

One hospital worker quoted by the NOS said: "When they were delivered to our hospital, I immediately rejected those masks... If those masks do not close properly, the virus particles can simply pass. We do not use them.

"That is unsafe for our people."

The Netherlands, like its European neighbours, has introduced strict social distancing measures to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Mark Rutte moved to close all bars, restaurants, and schools.

It had reported 9,762 confirmed cases of the virus and 639 deaths linked to it at the time of writing.

It is not the only European country to report receiving faulty equipment from China.

Microbiology experts in Spain this week said that rapid coronavirus tests that the country bought from the Chinese state are not consistently detecting positive cases.

Studies on these tests found that they had only 30% sensitivity, meaning they correctly identified people with the virus only 30% of the time, according to the Spanish newspaper El País.

Medical professionals in the Czech Republic have also said that rapid tests from China were not working properly.

View attachment 439349

CHINESE NURSES WERE USING THE FAULTY MASKS, TESTING PATIENTS WITH FAULTY TESTKITS
🥵🥵🥵

There were a lot of masks in the blackmarket in Korea, that was brought from china.
They had to track them down and confiscate them because they were faulty and useless. They probably sold the same ones to these countries.
🚫🚫🚫🚫

Isn't outsourcing awesome?

People like you are always supporting corporatists who rationalize outsourcing as being "good for the consumer." But now that it's come home to bite you in the azz you're all up in arms over it.

Typocrite.

Time for the world to consciously uncouple from China. Won't be easy but better than putting up with their lies and waiting for their disgusting wet markets to inflict an even worse disease on the rest of us.

Hey!!! Something we agree on!

Now, who started the outsourcing landslide again?🤔🤨

 

[Carbuncle]

Spain returns faulty test kits to China as COVID-19 death toll passes 4,000-mark
euroefe.es
Mar 26, 2020 (updated: 2:10)

The Chinese embassy said the Spanish government had purchased the items from an unlicensed company called Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology. [EPA/ABIR SULTAN]
Languages: Deutsch
As Spain's death toll hit 4,089, the Chinese embassy in Madrid said on Thursday (26 March) that the Spanish government had bought a batch of faulty COVID-19 testing kits from an unauthorised Chinese company. EURACTIV's partner EFE reports.
The number of confirmed COVID-19 cases rose to almost 56,188 on Thursday (26 March), up 655 compared to the day before.
Spain's efforts to roll out 640,000 rapid testing kitsbought from companies in China and South Korea this week hit a setback when the first order of around 9,000 failed to meet specifications and had to be returned.
The Chinese embassy said the Spanish government had purchased the items from an unlicensed company called Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology.
In a message on Twitter, it said the order had not been part of the €432 million ($466m) contract with China that the Spanish government announced Wednesday (25 March), which would include the delivery of 5.5 million testing kits.
"The Chinese ministry of commerce offered Spain a list of certified providers, which did not include Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology. Shenzhen Bioeasy Biotechnology has not yet been licensed by the Chinese National Medical Products Administration to sell its products," he said.
The head of Spain's public health emergency department Fernando Simon confirmed in his daily briefing that the first batch of kits delivered to the country had been sent back to the provider, although he did not name the company in question.
"Spain obtained several providers and supply routes. The first one sent a batch of 9,000 tests that were validated at the National Center of Epidemiology and some hospitals (in Madrid).
However, "the specifications of the batch did not match up with the certification of quality that came with it, which meant they had to be returned and the company will change them," he said.
The Spanish association of microbiologists (SEIMC) warned that the testing kits in this batch performed with an accuracy level of under 30%,
"With this level of accuracy, it is impossible to put them into routine use," SEIMC spokeswoman María del Mar Tomás told EFE.

Hopefully, we are not getting our test kits from china.
They sold it to Italy, Czech, Denmark, etc...
And they all returning them..

The Netherlands has recalled 600,000 coronavirus face masks it imported from China after discovering they were faulty
[email protected] (Adam Payne,Sinéad Baker,Ruqayyah Moynihan)
Business InsiderMarch 29, 2020, 2:05 AM PDT

Dutch Prime Minister Mark Rutte.
Jack Taylor / Getty

• The Netherlands has asked hospitals to give back around 600,000 face masks it imported from China.
• It found that the masks were failing to meet safety requirements, Dutch media reported.
• The masks were failing to stop coronavirus particles pass through, the report said.

The Dutch government has recalled over half a million face masks it imported from China after discovering that they were faulty.

The Netherlands said on Saturday that it had asked its hospitals to return around 600,000 face masks which health professionals are using to treat patients of the coronavirus.

"The mouth masks that are not satisfactory have been retrieved," Holland's Ministry of Health told Dutch broadcaster NOS.

The NOS reported that the faulty masks fail to meet safety requirements because they did not fit on the faces of doctors and nurses and were failing to prevent particles of the COVID-19 virus passing through.

One hospital worker quoted by the NOS said: "When they were delivered to our hospital, I immediately rejected those masks... If those masks do not close properly, the virus particles can simply pass. We do not use them.

"That is unsafe for our people."

The Netherlands, like its European neighbours, has introduced strict social distancing measures to combat the spread of the COVID-19 virus. Earlier this month, Prime Minister Mark Rutte moved to close all bars, restaurants, and schools.

It had reported 9,762 confirmed cases of the virus and 639 deaths linked to it at the time of writing.

It is not the only European country to report receiving faulty equipment from China.

Microbiology experts in Spain this week said that rapid coronavirus tests that the country bought from the Chinese state are not consistently detecting positive cases.

Studies on these tests found that they had only 30% sensitivity, meaning they correctly identified people with the virus only 30% of the time, according to the Spanish newspaper El País.

Medical professionals in the Czech Republic have also said that rapid tests from China were not working properly.

View attachment 439349

CHINESE NURSES WERE USING THE FAULTY MASKS, TESTING PATIENTS WITH FAULTY TESTKITS
🥵🥵🥵

There were a lot of masks in the blackmarket in Korea, that was brought from china.
They had to track them down and confiscate them because they were faulty and useless. They probably sold the same ones to these countries.
🚫🚫🚫🚫

In the interest of fairness (arguably as close to a religion as I'll ever believe in), I submit this:

You're welcome.

 

[Iloveuberyay]

Her heels were made in China.

 

[runneo]

best documentary

 

[Carbuncle]

best documentary

Epoch Times?

Seriously, dood?

 

[runneo]

 

[Carbuncle]

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[Its me bro]

Countries criticize China for sending - and resending - faulty coronavirus test kits, supplies

By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News

It's been months -- and China still can't deliver.

The COVID-19 global outbreak that ignited a mad dash to buy up millions of masks, rapid test kits and other personal protective equipment around the world hit a major snag when countries counted on China for help.

The growing pains of trying to slide into the role of international hero as well as rushing -- and failing -- to fulfill billions of orders might lead to China's undoing

When news of the novel coronavirus hit, China, the epicenter of the crisis, became the target of anger and accusations.

Still, as the virus grew in strength and spread around the world infecting more than 2.5 million people, China took the opportunity to rebrand itself as a global humanitarian.

The problem is that they aren't one.

While suggesting to the world they were donating equipment and test kits, Beijing actually bumped up prices and sold lifesaving supplies at a tremendous profit.

When countries started to complain about the quality of the products they had purchased from China, instead of taking the criticism and vowing to do better, China initially blamed it on user error.

Things have steadily gone downhill since then as more and more countries come forward with claims of shoddy products and test kits that don't meet medical standards.

Spain got a double dose of poorly made China test kits. The country announced Thursday it is sending back faulty coronavirus tests that were supposed to be replacements for the first faulty batch the country brought from China.

Spain's Health Ministry said the order of 640,000 antigen coronavirus tests were canceled after health officials once again found the tests were not sensitive enough to detect the virus.

Spain had initially bought $467 million in medical supplies from China, including 950 ventilators, 5.5 million testing kits, 11 million gloves and more than half a billion protective face masks. But soon after the shipment was received, the Spanish government announced plans to return 9,000 "quick result" test kits to China because they were deemed substandard, specifically the sensibility of the test was around 30 percent when it should have been higher than 80 percent.

With its patience pushed, the European country is demanding a refund.

Spain has 213,024 confirmed coronavirus cases - the second most in the world behind the United States. Spain's numbers could be even higher because the country has not been testing widely.

The Netherlands also had a problem with China and complained that the masks it was sent did not close over the face properly and that others had defective filters. Dutch officials had to recall tens of thousands of the ones they had already distributed to hospitals because they didn't meet quality standards, the health ministry said in a March 21 statement.

Up to 80 percent of the 150,000 rapid coronavirus test kits China delivered to the Czech Republic in March were also faulty and less accurate than other tests, forcing the Czech Republic to continue to rely on conventional laboratory tests.

In April, the Australian Border Force seized around 800,000 defective face masks it bought from Beijing worth $7.6 million following a video that went viral of a Chinese factory worker snickering as he rubbed the face masks on his shoe. People not only had a problem with the masks but also with how much China charged Australia for them. A senior government minister claimed the Chinese approach of jacking up the prices was borderline "extortion."

Scientists in Slovakia, Turkey and Britain have also complained about faulty antigen or antibody coronavirus test kits bought from Chinese companies, in some cases costing their governments millions of dollars.

Georgia ended up canceling its contract with the Chinese company that sent its faulty test kits to Spain while Malaysia skipped China altogether and went with a South Korean company.

The United States, which has been at the forefront of Chinese criticism, has not been immune to faulty equipment.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker bought $17 million worth of masks from China after claiming the Trump administration was not helping hard-hit states. The money was spent on Chinese KN95 masks which the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said were an alternative to the hard-to-find N95 masks.

However, Missouri's health department tested the masks made in China and found that 48,000 of them needed to be recalled.

Pritzker has come under fire from the White House for criticizing its handling of the coronavirus crisis. Trump pushed back and accused Pritzker of not being able to do his job and said he was "complaining all the time."

"That's the landscape we're operating in, competing with other states, other countries, and even our own federal government for supplies - so if an airlift is what it takes to bring the PPE to protect our nurses, firefighters, police officers and other essential workers, then it's an airlift we'll use - without hesitation," Pritzker said.

 

[Carbuncle]

Countries criticize China for sending - and resending - faulty coronavirus test kits, supplies

By Barnini Chakraborty | Fox News

It's been months -- and China still can't deliver.

The COVID-19 global outbreak that ignited a mad dash to buy up millions of masks, rapid test kits and other personal protective equipment around the world hit a major snag when countries counted on China for help.

The growing pains of trying to slide into the role of international hero as well as rushing -- and failing -- to fulfill billions of orders might lead to China's undoing

When news of the novel coronavirus hit, China, the epicenter of the crisis, became the target of anger and accusations.

Still, as the virus grew in strength and spread around the world infecting more than 2.5 million people, China took the opportunity to rebrand itself as a global humanitarian.

The problem is that they aren't one.

While suggesting to the world they were donating equipment and test kits, Beijing actually bumped up prices and sold lifesaving supplies at a tremendous profit.

When countries started to complain about the quality of the products they had purchased from China, instead of taking the criticism and vowing to do better, China initially blamed it on user error.

Things have steadily gone downhill since then as more and more countries come forward with claims of shoddy products and test kits that don't meet medical standards.

Spain got a double dose of poorly made China test kits. The country announced Thursday it is sending back faulty coronavirus tests that were supposed to be replacements for the first faulty batch the country brought from China.

Spain's Health Ministry said the order of 640,000 antigen coronavirus tests were canceled after health officials once again found the tests were not sensitive enough to detect the virus.

Spain had initially bought $467 million in medical supplies from China, including 950 ventilators, 5.5 million testing kits, 11 million gloves and more than half a billion protective face masks. But soon after the shipment was received, the Spanish government announced plans to return 9,000 "quick result" test kits to China because they were deemed substandard, specifically the sensibility of the test was around 30 percent when it should have been higher than 80 percent.

With its patience pushed, the European country is demanding a refund.

Spain has 213,024 confirmed coronavirus cases - the second most in the world behind the United States. Spain's numbers could be even higher because the country has not been testing widely.

The Netherlands also had a problem with China and complained that the masks it was sent did not close over the face properly and that others had defective filters. Dutch officials had to recall tens of thousands of the ones they had already distributed to hospitals because they didn't meet quality standards, the health ministry said in a March 21 statement.

Up to 80 percent of the 150,000 rapid coronavirus test kits China delivered to the Czech Republic in March were also faulty and less accurate than other tests, forcing the Czech Republic to continue to rely on conventional laboratory tests.

In April, the Australian Border Force seized around 800,000 defective face masks it bought from Beijing worth $7.6 million following a video that went viral of a Chinese factory worker snickering as he rubbed the face masks on his shoe. People not only had a problem with the masks but also with how much China charged Australia for them. A senior government minister claimed the Chinese approach of jacking up the prices was borderline "extortion."

Scientists in Slovakia, Turkey and Britain have also complained about faulty antigen or antibody coronavirus test kits bought from Chinese companies, in some cases costing their governments millions of dollars.

Georgia ended up canceling its contract with the Chinese company that sent its faulty test kits to Spain while Malaysia skipped China altogether and went with a South Korean company.

The United States, which has been at the forefront of Chinese criticism, has not been immune to faulty equipment.

Illinois Gov. J.B. Pritzker bought $17 million worth of masks from China after claiming the Trump administration was not helping hard-hit states. The money was spent on Chinese KN95 masks which the Atlanta-based Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said were an alternative to the hard-to-find N95 masks.

However, Missouri's health department tested the masks made in China and found that 48,000 of them needed to be recalled.

Pritzker has come under fire from the White House for criticizing its handling of the coronavirus crisis. Trump pushed back and accused Pritzker of not being able to do his job and said he was "complaining all the time."

"That's the landscape we're operating in, competing with other states, other countries, and even our own federal government for supplies - so if an airlift is what it takes to bring the PPE to protect our nurses, firefighters, police officers and other essential workers, then it's an airlift we'll use - without hesitation," Pritzker said.

Isn't outsourcing in order to skirt quality and safety regulations awesome?😏